Azure Pipelines Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Pipelines over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 391 440
Rank change year-on-year +65 +49 +55
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 10 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.039% 0.091%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile - £594 £413
25th Percentile £475 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £525 - £625
90th Percentile - £673 £669
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +1.43% -7.49% +3.18%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Pipelines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Pipelines in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Pipelines within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +47 4 - - 6
South East +48 3 - - 4
Scotland - 2 £500 - 2
North of England +19 1 - - 4
North West +17 1 - - 2
Azure Pipelines
UK

Azure Pipelines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (20.00%) CloudFront
5 2 (20.00%) Route 53
5 2 (20.00%) Yarn
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Ant
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) webpack
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Military
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) ADO
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) JSON Schema
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) TypeORM
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Fintech
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Bug Management
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Spotify